Summary

  • SA need Test record 466 to win

  • Root 58, Sibley 44, Curran 35

  • Debutant Hendricks 5-64

  • Injured Philander bowls only 1.3 overs

  • South Africa 183 - deficit of 217

  • England do not enforce follow-on

  • Wood 5-46, Woakes 2-38, Stokes 2-47

  • De Kock 76, Pretorius 37

  • Fourth Test, day three, Johannesburg

  • England lead 2-1 in four-Test series

Live Reporting

Kal Sajad and Stephan Shemilt

  1. Eng 75-2

    Joe Root is the new man, immediately beaten by on that moves away. All of a sudden, Paterson is making the ball talk. A wicket maiden, and some excitement.

  2. Eleanor Oldroyd
    The Cricket Social

    We should say say Joe Denly wasn't too well, he did have a migraine earlier this morning.

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  3. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Johannesburg

    A great cheer goes round The Wanderers, that pleases the home crowd. It was a lively ball but again it's that drive of Denly's which often provides his downfall.

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    Denly b Paterson 8 (Eng 75-2)

    Bowled him! That's a trimmer from new bowler Dane Paterson, bringing it back in between Joe Denly's bat and pad, sending off stump out of the ground. Denly swishes his bat in frustration before he drags himself off. There's always the game within the game. England will win this match, but Denly may wonder about his long-term future.

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    That lobster guy looks quite regal. Did he come by train? From King's Crustacean?

    Bob, Shropshire

  6. Eng 75-1

    Lead by 292

    Dwaine Pretorius trundles into his sixth over, two slips and a gully for Sibley, but also with sweepers on either side. I've just relayed some of the fridge advice to the future Mrs S. Her reply was: "I thought you wrote about cricket. This sounds like DIY SOS." She quite liked cricket before she met me.

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    The fridge (Sibley) doesn't look broken to me.

    Guy F, Oxford

  8. Eng 73-1

    Lead by 290

    You're right, Ben. It's like asking for a help from one million of your closest friends.

    That's nice from Denly, a sweetly timed clip off the pads sends Nortje to the square leg boundary for four. He follows that up with the most handsome of cover drives, which Beuran Hendricks just stops from reaching the boundary.

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    Not many jobs can you crowdsource your domestic problems.

    Ben, Manchester

  10. Eng 64-1

    Denly is batting outside his crease, urging himself on to the front foot and desperately looking for a start. When he plays around his pad, Pretorius asks for leg before, but that is leggy. I've grown to quite like Denly, after being sceptical about his initial pick. It would be nice to see him do well here. You get the feeling he's clinging on.

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    How not to defrost fridge. Use a boning knife to jab at the ice, this puncturing back of fridge causing spray of unknown chemical into face. Take fridge to tip. Buy new one.

    Calum, Worcs

  12. Eng 64-1

    Lead by 281

    Dom Sibley pulls a particular face as the bowler runs in. Eyes squinting, mouth open, like your grandma assessing a menu when she hasn't got her readers. An edge off Nortje encourages South Africa to post a gully, with Sibley responding by drilling a drive through the covers. Your grandma couldn't play that shot. Unless she's Eileen Ash. Look her up.

  13. Adam Mountford
    BBC Test Match Special in Johannesburg

    The Sunday sunshine in Johannesburg has led quite a few England fans to take on the lobster look. But Dave from Birmingham has gone one stage further. I asked him why he decided to come to the cricket dressed as a crustacean. "I don’t really know," he said.

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  14. Eng 56-1

    Pretorius 4-0-16-1

    Now then, Joe Denly. He always looks absolutely immaculate in his kit, but batting has looked like an increasing struggle. Time for a score?

  15. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent in Johannesburg

    Crawley played very well but he just pushed at one that bounced a bit.

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    Crawley c De Kock b Pretorius 24 (Eng 56-1)

    You could say that Zak Crawley has missed a great opportunity to get a big score and he's in danger of repeatedly falling after pretty starts, but this is a really good delivery from Dwaine Pretorius. Away movement, bounce, taking the shoulder of the bat through to the keeper. If anything, was a bit a bit wide to be playing at? Maybe. But that would be hyper-critical.

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    Ben: A former boss was once impatiently defrosting the office fridge. Sat on the floor, he put a full kettle into the fridge and prodded the ice. The ice fell off, knocked a kettle of boiling water into his lap. Boss ran round office is y-fronts. Never laughed some much.

  18. Eng 52-0

    Lead by 269

    Anrich Nortje comes back into the attack, bending his back in the sunshine. Sibley gurns back towards the bowler, fiddling with his shirt and his helmet. The right-hander gets so far across that he exposes leg stump. The way this platform is being laid, England could really push on tonight and in the morning.

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    This is England's third consecutive opening partnership of 50. That's not happened since Alastair Cook and Nick Compton, who had four in a row, in India.

  20. Eng 51-0

    Pretorius nips one back into Crawley's back thigh and screams the question somewhere in the vague direction of the umpire. That's too high and Faf du Plessis, even when he is so desperate for a wicket, know the review would be futile. The 50 partnership comes up with a Sibley slash behind point for four. England have a decision to make when Rory Burns is fit.